Atmosphere Quote by Midge Ure

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the…

— John Legend

I write lyrics based on music, on a musical flow, and what sounds good at the time.

— Mike Patton

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later…

— Etgar Keret

I always write the lyrics first. There are one or two exceptions over the years, but that's pretty much the way it's been. The…

— Bruce Cockburn

I always start with writing vocal melodies before writing lyrics.

— Sigrid

It's rare that I'll write lyrics first. If I come up with some good lyrics, I'll write them down and try to use them…

— Rob Crow

The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings and just…

— Zachary Cole Smith

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

— Lorde

I usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that.

— Grace Potter

Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say. I write…

— Leon Bridges

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out to the…

— Yungblud

Making music, creating lyrics comes very naturally to me.

— Junaid Jamshed